Report: UFC Exec Says Promotion Toronto-Bound Dec. 10

Citing UFC Chairman and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta, ESPN.com Tuesday
reported that UFC 140 will
go down Dec. 10 at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. No bouts have been
announced for the event.

In May, UFC Canada Director of Operations Tom Wright stated that
Montreal’s Bell Centre could play host to the Dec. 10 event. The
reason behind the venue change is currently unknown.

MMA was legalized in Ontario in August 2010, and the UFC made its
inaugural trip to the Canadian province in April. In the UFC 129
headliner, welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre defended his
belt against Jake Shields at Rogers Centre in Toronto. That event
set promotional and North American MMA records for the attendance
and live gate, netting 55,724 spectators for a total of nearly
$12.1 million.

UFC 140 will not match those numbers, as the Air Canada Centre
holds less than 20,000 spectators for basketball and ice hockey.
Opened in 1999, the venue is home to both the NHL’s Toronto Maple
Leafs and the NBA’s Toronto Raptors.